Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-23
THE GARDENER.
INNS for tie Ga,,te,,.

The important question with the fruit
gardener is the destruction of insects. All
schemes for their wholesale destruction
seem to prove failures, hence our best
hopes are in their individual destruction
The different kinds of moths and flies may
be entrapped by the thousand in tho per-
severing employment of wide -mouthed bot
ties of sweet liquids hung about tho trees.
The curculio, whose most tempting
allurements do not lie like moths in the
way of sweet food, but in finding nice
juicy nest, or resting place, for the deposit
of eggs wherewith to perpetuate its species,
can be slain by the hundreds through per-
severance in the shaking process. A snag.
made by saving of small branch few
inches from the main trunk of the tree,
should be secured On each, on the point of
which to hammer; or otherwise the bark
of the tree would be irreparably injured.
With sheet spread under the tree, and
sharp, quick jar with hammer, NIL the
pests then on the tree may be secured and
destroyed.
The curculios are rather lazily inclined,
but still q few will come from your neigh
bors' trees, though n few Earrings OCCASION
ally will keep them down. Experience has
shown that this course, which only demands
n little labor, is much more effectual than
the thousand schemes that have been de-
vised for hanging various charms alb out
the branches.
Watch newly-planted fruit trees. If
they have but a few weak leaves, it shows
that the roots have been injured. Then
prune them severely, which will make
them grow freely. 1t should be main
object to make all transplanted trees not
merely to have leaves, but to have new
shoots at the earliest possible moment. If
they are growing we'll, they may be allowed
to perfect few specimens of fruit. Over
bearing on a newly planted tree is one of
the best ways of making it stunted for
years.
Handsome forms are as desirable in fruit
as in ornamental trees. No winter prun-
ing will do this exclusively. 1t is summer
pinching which clothes the skeleton with
beauty. A strong shoot soon draws all
nutriment to itself. Never allow one
shoot to grow that wants to be larger than
the others. Equality must be insisted on.
Pinch out always as soon as they appear
such rs would push too strongly ahead, and
keep doing so until the new buds seem
stronger than the others.
Where water can be commanded, nothing
is more profitable than to soak the soil
around small fruits, especially about the
time they have set their fruit. Much of
the value of this operation will depend on
the nature of the soil. The advantages
are least in tenacious and greatest in a
porous soil. Animals derive most benefit
from food when they are hungry before
they commence to eat, and it is certainly so
with plants. Water applied to soil already
wet is IN injury. A plant that never
seems to want water is in doubtful con-
dition in regard to its health.
In the cultivation of garden crops, the
hoe and rake should be continually al
work. Weeds should be taken in hand
before they are barely out of the seed leaf,
| and one-half the usual labor of vegetable
gardening would be avoided. Hoeing O,
earthing up of most garden crops is of i'm.
mense advantage in nearly every case. A
fair trial, say on every other row of a bed
of cabbages even. will show great differ.
ence in favor OF the earthed-up plants as
compared with those subjected 10 flat cul.
ture.
In sowing seeds it is we'll to remembe,
that though the soil should be deep ant
finely pulyerized, yet loose condition il
unfavorable TO good growth. After til,
seeds are sown, u heavy rolling would be ,
great advantage. This practice, thoupl
often pursued in farm crops, is seldom ex
tended to garden work.-The Gardener
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